Shirley Booth Quotes

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

Money is a never-ending problem.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.